Ancient records of long summer

Long summer, April festival. Make a word to understand spring. Summer, holidays. At this time, everything is fake and big.

Tickle. Bug, bug, make a hole in the soil, go out good night, today people call it a local dog; Moles, moles and crickets have different dialects. Huai Nan Zi said, "The sound of cricket, the sound of cricket, the appearance of cricket, the beginning of Yin Qi, are two things." Summer: March is also a song. And there are five abilities, none of which are skills: flying over the house; The edge can't be bad; Can't swim across the valley; Acupoints cannot cover the body; You cannot continue. Therefore, Shuowen called Fei a five-skill mouse. Notes on Ancient and Modern Times is also called Gugu. "Yaya and Materia Medica are considered as bugs, while Lu Deming and Zheng Kangcheng think frogs are not.

The earthworm came out. Earthworms, that is, lumbricus, are also famous for their singing. In "Li Jie", it is said that those who bow to yin see through yang.

Wang Guasheng, as mentioned in the Illustration, can be seen everywhere, including wild ones, fields with walls, leaves like Trichosanthes kirilowii and Linderae, round hairs like thorns, creeping, May yellow flowers, seeds like projectiles, green ripe, roots like kudzu, thin and complex, also known as sweet potato, crow melon, today. In The Book of Rites, Jacky pointed out: This is the curse. Materia Medica is China's cymbal book, and Tao lived in seclusion to distinguish its fallacies. He said that China cymbals have their own articles, but Wang Gua also has his own articles. It was ridiculous for Confucian scholars at that time to talk without consulting books. "Yi Zhou Shu Shi Xun Jie" says: "On a long summer day, it sounds like a song. On the fifth day, the earthworm came out. Another five days, Wang Guasheng. " That is to say, in this solar term, you can first hear the chirping of grubs (that is, slugs) in the field, then you can see earthworms digging in the soil, and then the vines of melon begin to climb and grow rapidly, which describes the phenological scene in early summer.

The book "Eight Chapters of Lotus Life" written by the Ming Dynasty said: "On the day of summer dream, heaven and earth began to merge and everything was beautiful." At this time, the summer harvest crops entered the late growth stage, the winter wheat blossomed and filled, the rape was close to maturity, and the summer harvest crops were basically a foregone conclusion that year. Therefore, there is a saying in agricultural proverbs that "see summer in the long summer". Rice planting and management of other spring-sown crops have also entered a busy season. Therefore, China has always attached great importance to the long summer solar terms. According to records, during the Zhou Dynasty, on the day of long summer, the emperor personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to the suburbs to "welcome summer" and instructed Si Tuleideng and other officials to encourage farmers to work hard.

"The Book of Rites and the Moon Order" explains the saying of Chang Xia: "Insects come out, melons grow long, and bitter vegetables are obvious." Explain that at this time, frogs began to clamor for the coming of summer, earthworms were busy helping farmers to loosen the soil, and wild vegetables on the ridge were also scrambling to be unearthed.